Percy Shelley, On Wordsworth, Ozymandias, Mont Blanc

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[@TheLookingGlassAU]

Question: I've been noticing that gnosticism seems to be resurging during the romantic period. Not only in literature but also some scientific and scoial writers from Germany and France (like Henri Saint-Simone, Hegel and others). There is also a use of the word "magic" when John Henry Newman talks about universities who's science department has filled the moral/spiritual hole that Theology occupied. I also notice in C S Lewis that often in the Narnia and Space series that professors of science often are seeking arcane knowledge and use children as sacrifices/experiment subjects. I know there is a difference between Hermeticism and Gnosticism but where did the writers get source material considering Nag Hamadi wasn't discovered until the 20th century, Egyptian, Ugaritic, Arkkadian etc archeology and languages were not subjects of study until later also. So what source material did the early writers like Shelley draw from and is it a Gnosticism or is it a gnosticism? Certainly in today's culture it has evolved into a gnostic insistence in the sciences at universities.

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They didn’t draw from sources. It’s a result of their adherence to a new theory of language, which I outlined in a recent lecture. It posits ultimate reality internally in a ‘relation’ of the mind to the feelings.